Your Fantasy Top Five?

[Forkbeard]

Originally Posted by BeardofPants

What are you talking about? In Martian Time-slip they're talking about colonising and living on mars. It's pretty hard not to see PK Dick as anything but sci-fi. Sure it's not hard sci-fi, but it's definitely sci-fi.

_Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_ is more a question of what makes us human than it is an examination of the role of technologically developed beings in society...i. e. what "science" there is isn't really important to the story, the same question could have been asked of race (and has been), gender, etc.

_The Broken Bubble_ is more realist than either fantasy or science fiction.

_Deus Irae_?

Of course, one recognizes that the lines blur. Is Star Wars sci fi because it has space ships, or fantasy because it has "magic"? Is Dick a sci-fi writer because often his stories are set in a "futuristic" context, or is he a short story writer in the classic sense because he often asks the important and essential questions that many writers have asked, or is he fantasy because his books have "fantastic" elements, not all of which are science or technologically based? Left Hand of Darkness is another case in point-it takes place on a foreign planet-is it fantsy then or sci fi?